AuthorTopic: Loyal Class Tender New Build (Read 15754 times)

Some years ago i stupidly sold a much loved model of a Loyal Class Fleet Tender which I'd bought already build from a fellow boat builder. From the moment I helped load it into the man's car i instantly regreted selling her Luckily I managed to buy a new kit from Model Slipway (2nd to last one!) a year and a half ago and the following pictures are my attempt at a worthy replacement to the one I once owned...

I had the exhaust funnel made out of fibreglass and done away with the kit supplied vac-formed funnel. I plan on installing a heated smoke unit so thought the idea of a fibreglass funnel made more sense!

Built a light up working radar monitor with a transparency slide graphic. I was all set to fit until I was given some detailed pictures of a Loyal wheelhouse which doesn't have this style of radar monitor...oh well! Isn't it always the case though, you search and search for reference material and find nothing, then as you've gone with what you think should be in there you end up finding (or being given in my case) some super detailed photographic images and start ripping the model to pieces again!